Only 300 million broadband users worldwide
Some might think that 300 million is an impressive number but that’s 300 million out of some 6 billion with broadband access. That doesn’t look very good in my opinion. What are the other 5.7 billion people doing all day?
There are almost no internet users in Africa, I can look at the charts, it’s practically dead, traffic wise, flat lining, send it off to the morgue, dead.
But that still doesn’t count for the discrepancy in the rest of the world. Only 60 million people in the US have broadband. What about the other 240 million, what are they using? Dial-up, oh please? Dial-up died in 1995, get over it and get broadband.
China is second on the list with 52 million broadband users out of 1 billion, well; it’s a communist run country so I can’t draw any kind of conclusion from that.
The UK only has 14 million broadband subscribers, honestly folks, what’s going on? It’s time to start a “Got Broadband” campaign or something.
The Inquirer says there are 7 countries in Africa with broadband at all but the subscriber base is minute (meaning nonexistent). Of course, that’s probably at touristy hotels anyway.
I’m not counting the folks who might use internet connections elsewhere like at restaurants, at work or any other location that isn’t home. How will we manage to keep track once Google covers the globe in free Wi-Fi for all?
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June 14th, 2007
About time you learnt to do some basic arithmetic, Jonathon, before you engage your lack of thought before publishing.
Did you, even for a nanosecond, consider that many, if not most broadband connections would be shared between users? For example, why would one household with four occupants have four separate connections?
Did you also consider that each shared connection would only show up as a single user?
How about the users who only access the internet at work, where their access is owned in the company’s name? Eight of the 16 staff I work alongside of fall into this category. This would account for millions of regular broadband users worldwide.
June 14th, 2007
Maybe I should change the title to 300 million broadband connections… yes, I know it can be shared but why not have broadband access at home as well? That is, if computers are your hobby and your job…
If there were four occupants in a house with only one connection… and everyone was online at the same time say downloading files or playing BF2 online, it would be slow… (or slower…)
You have some points… I’m not going to argue that but it’s difficult to count them… and I couldn’t find any substantial data about that.
I can’t make considerations for every single possible scenario… house “A” might have one connection with four users, house “B” might have one connection for one user.
User “C” might not have a connection at home but use it at work… now if there were one source that could break down the connection types, where they are in use, etc… but I couldn’t find that kind of data (at least specific enough for the purposes of this post).
Besides “Only 300 million” was to come off as slightly humorous.